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SatelliteOrders
March 24th, 2009, 11:18 PM
I have played on the Wednesday worship band for about eight years. I started out playing acoustic, but now I play rhythm on the Tele and, when the left-handed lead player wants to work on his rhythm as he switches from Dick Dale to Tony Iommi, string-wise, lead. I am happy with this situation, because I like playing my Teles.
The worship pastor has started forming a second Sunday band, and I have been asked to join. This is a rockin' band, with a saved metalhead on bass and a tremendous force on drums.
And they want me back on acoustic guitar.
And I have been torn. I want to play music. I want to praise the Lord. But I want to play electric!
Especially with this band. Not only is there the aforementioned players, but there's a grand piano and organ, not to mention the lead player, who, despite the plan to have two separate Sunday bands, will likely be the same guy I play with on Wednesdays. Quite frankly, I have always thought that playing an acoustic with that instrumentation is useless. Part of it is that I have always preferred the sound of an acoustic guitar unplugged to the all-treble sizzle you hear on the piezo-pickup'd acoustic rhythm guitar.
Tonight, we practiced, and I decided to put on the boost for my acoustic patch on the multieffects box, drop the bass to zero on the preamp's three-band, and embrace the treble. That's what the worship pastor wants, so lets give it to him. And suddenly, I started feeling much more at peace with the way I sounded, and with the whole thing.
Well, switching from the Dunlop Gator Grip 2mm to the Dunlop Ultex 1mm really brought it together. Which in and of itself is a bit surprising. But it's good to know how good things can sound once you get yourself into alignment.
The worship pastor has started forming a second Sunday band, and I have been asked to join. This is a rockin' band, with a saved metalhead on bass and a tremendous force on drums.
And they want me back on acoustic guitar.
And I have been torn. I want to play music. I want to praise the Lord. But I want to play electric!
Especially with this band. Not only is there the aforementioned players, but there's a grand piano and organ, not to mention the lead player, who, despite the plan to have two separate Sunday bands, will likely be the same guy I play with on Wednesdays. Quite frankly, I have always thought that playing an acoustic with that instrumentation is useless. Part of it is that I have always preferred the sound of an acoustic guitar unplugged to the all-treble sizzle you hear on the piezo-pickup'd acoustic rhythm guitar.
Tonight, we practiced, and I decided to put on the boost for my acoustic patch on the multieffects box, drop the bass to zero on the preamp's three-band, and embrace the treble. That's what the worship pastor wants, so lets give it to him. And suddenly, I started feeling much more at peace with the way I sounded, and with the whole thing.
Well, switching from the Dunlop Gator Grip 2mm to the Dunlop Ultex 1mm really brought it together. Which in and of itself is a bit surprising. But it's good to know how good things can sound once you get yourself into alignment.